Michael Kinsley Quotes

They can't take your house and give it to the mayor's mistress, even if they pay you for it. But they can, apparently, take your house and tear it down to make room for a development of trendy shops and restaurants, a hotel and so on.

Michael Kinsley

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HotelYouHouseDownDevelopment

You can't be evangelical and associate yourself with Jesus and what he says about the poor and just have no other domestic concerns than tax cuts for wealthy people.

Jim Wallis

YourselfPeopleYouTaxPoorJust

It will be almost impossible for any other candidate to raise the money that the Clintons can raise.

John Catsimatidis

MoneyImpossibleWillCandidateAny

My fascination with letting images repeat and repeat - or in film's case 'run on' - manifests my belief that we spend much of our lives seeing without observing.

Andy Warhol

SeeingRunBeliefWithoutRepeat

I love visual gags and gimmicks; I love them.

Sia

LoveVisualThemI Love

All governments must maintain power through consent, not coercion.

Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

PowerThroughConsentMustMaintain

I think in order to keep America great, we have to keep America creative.

LL Cool J

GreatCreativeThinkAmericaOrder

The Government are very keen on amassing statistics - they collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams.

Josiah Stamp

PowerGovernmentStatisticsPrepare

When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston, there was a great deal of hope in the air. Martin Luther King Jr. was alive, Malcolm X was alive; great, great leaders were emerging from the southern freedom movement.

Jonathan Kozol

HopeFreedomGreatKingAliveAir

What's going to happen is that there will be a definite consensus that Europe is not working. The diagnosis will be to shed the currency and keep the rest, or that Europe is not working and a broader rejection - like in the U.K.

Joseph Stiglitz

RestRejectionWillEuropeConsensus

There's only certain things you can control. I know how hard I work, I know how I take care of myself, and those are the two things I can control. As far as injuries and wear and tear and stuff like that, it's going to happen.

Jon Lester

WorkMyselfControlCareTake Care

Sometimes, the hate that I endure is not necessarily about me but about the space I'm in.

DeRay Mckesson

HateSpaceMeSometimesEndure

We create constructs to understand ourselves, the way we look, how we feel, what we believe - and we telegraph that 'branding' to the world.

Debbie Millman

WorldBelieveFeelLookCreateWay

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